Associated Press, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:31p ET (h/t Anonymous tips): 7.3-magnitude quake rocks Japan [...] An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan’s emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the region that includes the crippled Fukushima nuclear site. [...] NHK reported that Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima plant, ordered workers near the coast to move to higher ground. [...]

BBC News, Oct. 25, 2013 at 2:23p ET: Japan has issued a tsunami advisory for the Fukushima area – where the crippled nuclear plant is located – after a powerful quake in the Pacific [...] JMA issued a “yellow” advisory for Fukushima and also the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, Ibaraki and parts of Chiba, saying tsunami waves could reach 0.2-1m. “Tsunamis are expected to arrive imminently,” it said. [...]

USGS, Oct. 25, 2013: The October 25, 2013 M 7.3 earthquake offshore of Honshu, Japan occurred as the result of normal faulting in the shallow oceanic crust of the Pacific plate. The earthquake occurred outboard (east) of the Japan Trench, which marks the seafloor expression of the subduction zone plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates, and is immediately up-dip of the source region of the March 2011 M 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. [...] The location, depth, and focal mechanism of the October 25 2013 event are consistent with normal faulting rupture near the outer-arc high of the Japan Trench. In this region, normal faulting is encouraged by both the bending of the Pacific plate as it enters the subduction zone, and by stresses transferred from the locked subduction thrust interface to the west. Since the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake, two large events of M 7.7 and M 7.3 have occurred in the vicinity of the October 25, 2013 earthquake. [...]

Is this a live cam link? I logged on and watched things blow up for God's sake. According to the TEPCO map, the cam is pointed right at reactor 4. It looks like a criticality happened and if it is live when we are doomed. Is this from some past event?

Time to change 'ENE-NEws' into 'ELE-News'. Thank You for all You did, ENE. Your services were greatly appreciated. My fellow commenters, I wish You all the best. Enjoy every breath You still have from now. Aloha pumehana.

Hi Pu239… indeed we have known and worried… and I screamed the "F"ers word too..really loud! Now I feel sick to my stomach.. think I will get drunk this evening.

As I view the tbs loop I can only think that crap will be here in 4 or 5 days but, hey, I am so grateful for the Cold shutdown, and that the radiation only stays in the harbour.. thank goodness, right?

Nor do nuclear power and Carrington-event-strength solar CMEs mix. If today's suddenly increased solar eruption and ejection activity were to ever exceed the 1859 Carrington strength, shutting down our unhardened electric grids worldwide, we would in 3 days of expended back-up cooling fuel be looking at 300-400 Fukushima disasters worldwide. Haven't done the math on how many of the world's 432 reactors are protected from grid failure:

So building the reactors beside large perennial waterfalls with interruptible, hardened hydroelectric power, and unlimited coolant water, entailed, let me guess, excessive building cost and too much power loss to distant urban markets?

So, will TEPCO tell us the truth about any damages at the Fukushima Daiichi site? Will this impact the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? Not a chance right?

What about those poor men working on site at Fukushima Daiichi?
What happens if everyone must evacuate due to the tsunami or further quakes?
What happens when the ground under the plant further liquifies?
What happens when the water storage tanks all rupture due to a quake/tsunami?

1. No, truth is always the first victim
2. They should cancel the Olympics there. No chance they will.
3. Caring for others has become passé (except for ENENewsers)
4. Nowhere to go – nobody wants irradiated people
5. Big trouble
6. Same as 5.

I don't know but it seems every time an earthquake strikes near Fuku the corium seems to act up which makes sense as any crust formation would crack. I remember seeing lots of black smoke coming up from areas around the reactor buildings after many earthquakes perhaps it's a just coincidence. I guess we will see this time of course it's probably raining hindering visual conformation. I was very concerned about all the rain causing the buildings to sink and of course now they are using the in ground pools to store the tainted water, It just seems like the place is cursed and thus all species along with it.

Tepco will gleefully report that no damage was sustained and the situation is completely under control. Further, the workers were evacuated strictly as a precautionary measure which had nothing to do with the 10,000 fold spike in radiation.

@Ang 18
90% of the mainstream media is owned by just 5 corporations. These corporations in conjunction with their government minions actively scrub any news which shows the corporatocracy (this includes Tepco) in an unflattering or unprofitable way.
The only truthful and unslanted news disseminated these days is news reported by the other 10% who are actually ethical and unbiased.

CNN didn't bother to mention it. FoxNews had an alert, even links that worked to live covereage. All gone except a footnote article moving quickly down the page. The censorship on Fukushima is truly truly as impressive as it is sick. If they put half the effort into covering it up into working on a solution….

I was watching the live feed when that huge bright circle of light appeared. At first I thought I was seeing an explosion, but it persists with little change except for growing and diminishing rhythmically in size.

Why does a cat only get 9 lives whereas TEPCO gets 50?
Answer: Because as the world hangs in the balance, it's only been positive mass consciousness and Divine Providence that has spared us from an Apocalypse, certainly NOT TEPCO.

Instead, now, on the Japanese morning news they are talking about sea urchin fisherman and fishing business. What the fuck? They should be showing the Fukushima Daiichi plant and what's going on there.

Now bimbo reporter is eating clams and saying "oishi". Fucking retards. Who would be eating seafood in Japan now? Crazy world.

It appears to be getting foggier and foggier, but oddly for the last 15 or 20 minutes the large bright light has stopped pulsing and the smoke/steam that could be seen moving from left to right is gone. The only action in this "live stream" is the slight camera movement.

Dawn will break soon in the Land of the Rising Sun and Falling Nuclear Reactors. What will be revealed then?

Update from Vancouver Island…..now OVER one week solid of continuous fog – night and day. Never seen such a weather pattern here in my life. Longtime residents have FINALLY started to talk about it. Even when it has broken for a few minutes, the fog returns with a vengeance. What is going on?

I have been watching this cam for a couple of hours now. Started watching when there was smoke, lots of smoke that was drifting from left to right through the screen. At least a half hour of smoke that I saw. Started watching around Noon btw. Then it cleared and the smog/fog rolled in. It's daylight now and it looks like that typhoon is really kicking into gear. What. The. Fuck. is today going to bring? How long do we really have? I live in Seattle, so just a few days of radiation plume away. *sigh*

So did you guys see it clear about 10 min. ago? 5:16 pm EDT right now. Just for the record. I could see all the cranes which were not moving. Then I got a commercial interrupt the feed, and then all was dark again.

It has occurred to me someone could have this supposed live feed on loop.

One more thing. There are 2 cameras posted in this thread and I am watching both. One shows nothing but a light with smoke/fog but you cannot make out any of the structures like you could earlier. The other shows that it is daylight and some fog but you can see the site and the structures. If they are both real time which is it?

It's 6:35am in Japan right now, and that time matches the calm and clear video.

The first video link now shows no bright round light in the lower left. I don't see signs of power in either video stream at the moment. I only started watching that second feed you posted ten min. ago. I don't know which video is real either. The timestamp is right on the calm vid though. Hmm.

"I feel that at least several hundred scientists trained in the biomedical aspect of atomic energy –myself included– are candidates for Nuremberg-type trials for crimes against humanity for our gross negligence and irresponsibility. Now that we know the hazard of low-dose radiation, the crime is not experimentation– it’s murder."
- Dr. John Gofman, former Manhattan Project scientist from Berkeley, CA. 1979.

add murder charges to the government of Japan and all Tepco officials.

New Blogpost with
- ways to check weather, especially wind directions, in Japan
- ways to check radiation levels in many places worldwide, including Japan.

My impression: IF there's any additional radiation released to air, it's blowing out to sea, but may, at least a bit, return to land as the storm moves along the coast, or where wind locally comes from the ocean. Monitors surrounding the plant are in "under survey" mode, which is never a good sign when you most need to know…

Bobby1
on October 25, 2013 at 2:23 pm said:
According to our Tohoku Electric Power, Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture has stopped the operation, for now, is that information abnormality has occurred in the new that does not contain.
It is also that no change in the value of the monitoring posts that measures the radiation dose in the vicinity of the primary.

In a very strange turn of events, today, after the 7.2M earthquake, BOTH named storms WERE REMOVED FROM THE MAPS! Tropical Storm Francisco (even though its off the east coast of Japan) was downgraded, and Typhoon Lekima, which was a Category 3 Typhoon last night, was magically downgraded and wiped off the map as well.

However, you can clearly see in the .gif animation at the start of this post,both storms still exist, rotation still exists, high winds, and heavy precipitation still exists. So why downgrade and wipe the storms in such a rushed manner?

The answer is obvious. “They” do not want people to put 2+2 together on this. Unquote.

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